The whole village was in an uproar when a 6-year-old boy mysteriously disappeared on a summer afternoon. The child was said to have gone out to play around the village lake as usual, but then did not return.

When a small sandal was found floating on the surface of the water, people focused all their suspicions on the lake. Every square meter of the water surface was searched for 3 days and 3 nights; police dogs, divers, even people with “special knowledge” were invited, but… in vain. “The lake isn’t deep, why can’t they find him? Maybe he was kidnapped…” – The whisper spread quickly throughout the village.

A week later, while preparing to hold the “soul calling” ceremony, the neighbor on the lakeside suddenly remembered: “My family installed a camera outside the gate to watch the garden, who knows what we might have filmed that day.” The whole family and the local police sat breathlessly watching the video recording from the afternoon the boy went missing.

And the scene in the video left both of his parents speechless. In the blurry clip at 5:21 p.m., the boy appeared, holding a red ball, running happily along the lakeshore. But then, he did not slip and fall as everyone had guessed… …but a tall figure – the boy’s uncle – suddenly came up behind him, pushed him hard into the lake, then stood there watching for a few seconds before turning around and leaving.

The scene had no sound, but that calm, cold expression made the whole village feel like it was about to explode. Because of that intentional and strong push, the boy was swept into a vortex in the middle of the lake – where there was an underground current connected to a deep rock pit outside the old geological map, making the search completely hopeless during the first few days.

After the shock, the uncle was arrested, and the boy’s parents could only collapse to the ground, their eyes blank: “Why? Why is it my own brother?!” The investigation revealed: The uncle had secretly borrowed money from loan sharks and had intended to forge a death certificate to take over the inheritance of the house in the boy’s name. In desperation, he chose the most brutal way to “solve the problem.” The village lake was still there, calm. But from that day on, no one dared to go near it in the late afternoon anymore.

Not because of anything supernatural… But because of the terrifying truth hidden behind that peaceful appearance – coming from his own blood relatives. “The scariest thing… is not the depth of the lake. But the shallowness of people’s hearts.”